A psychological pattern where those consumed by preferential attachment lose the capacity to see others clearly, mistaking proximity and familiarity for genuine worth.
Rabia's radical love involved a transparency of vision—seeing through the veils of form and status to the soul beneath. Favoritism operates through the opposite mechanism: a deliberate blindness that elevates certain people while obscuring the inherent dignity of others. This concept explores how favoritism distorts perception itself, transforming the favored into false idols and rendering the overlooked invisible. In communities built on legacy and belonging, such blindness becomes structural: the favored receive reflected light and attention, while others fade into the background. Rabia would recognize this as the very attachment she spent her life dissolving. The lover's blindness to rank prevents genuine belonging because it prevents genuine seeing. By examining how favoritism clouds our vision, we recover the clarity that true community requires—a recognition of equal soul-worth beneath all hierarchies of status and preference.
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